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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
3 HOUSE BILL 1692 By: Stewart
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6 AS INTRODUCED
7 An Act relating to definitions and general
provisions; amending 25 O.S. 2021, Section 82.1,
8 which relates to holidays; providing date of General
Election as holiday; and providing an effective date.
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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
14 SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 25 O.S. 2021, Section 82.1, is
15 amended to read as follows:
16 Section 82.1. A. The designation and dates of holidays in
17 Oklahoma shall be as follows: Each Saturday, Sunday, New Year's Day
18 on the 1st day of January, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday on the
19 third Monday in January, Presidents' Day on the third Monday in
20 February, Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Independence Day
21 on the 4th day of July, Labor Day on the first Monday in September,
22 the day upon which any General Election is held, Veterans' Day on
23 the 11th day of November, Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in
24 November, the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas on the 25th day
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1 of December, the day before or after Christmas if Christmas is not
2 on a Saturday or Sunday, the Thursday and Friday before Christmas if
3 Christmas is on a Saturday, the Monday and Tuesday after Christmas,
4 if Christmas is on a Sunday; and if any of such holidays other than
5 Christmas fall on Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be a holiday
6 in that year and if any of such holidays other than Christmas fall
7 on Sunday, the succeeding Monday shall be a holiday in that year.
8 B. The Governor shall issue an Executive Order each year
9 specifying the dates on which the holidays other than Saturdays and
10 Sundays designated in subsection A of this section occur. If the
11 President of the United States declares any day other than those
12 listed in subsection A of this section as a national holiday, the
13 Governor may issue an Executive Order declaring such day a state
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15 C. Any act authorized, required, or permitted to be performed
16 on a holiday as designated in subsection A of this section may be
17 performed on the next succeeding business day, and no liability or
18 loss of rights of any kind shall result from such delay.
19 D. State employees, except for temporary and other limited term
20 employees, shall be entitled to a day off work without loss of pay
21 on those holidays specified in an Executive Order issued by the
22 Governor pursuant to subsection B of this section. Those state
23 employees, except for temporary and other limited term employees,
24 who are required to work on a holiday specified in subsection B of
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1 this section shall be entitled to a day off work, without loss of
2 pay, on an alternative date or payment in lieu thereof at the
3 discretion of the appointing authority and in accordance with rules
4 of the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
5 E. For the purposes of this section, "holiday" means that
6 agencies whose mission does not require them to be open for business
7 every day of the year shall be closed for official business.
8 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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